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Dear friends and colleagues,

This week's recommendations on conferences and lectures literally take place around the clock:

We would like to draw your attention to a nightly virtual book presentation by our Senior Research Fellow Mark Teeuwen, recommend an online conference opening lecture and announce an online workshop.

We also invite you to join a special film event tonight at Ost-Passage Theater, and our week's finding points to an interesting long-term study on religious trends.

Last but not least we would like to announce KFG's flu vaccination initiative taking place soon.

Enjoy and have a good week!

9th Annual Democratic Transition Conference: "Constitutions and Democratic Transition in the Arab Region"

Our Senior Research Fellow Housamedden Darwish recommends to us the opening lecture and international experts roundtable at this year's Democratic Transition Conference organised by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in cooperation with the Arab Association of Constitutional Law. 

The topic of this year's conference is “Constitutions and Democratic Transition in the Arab Region”.

You are invited to attend the event which will be held online on 25 September 2020 via Zoom.

Online workshop: Approaching the pir-talip relationship as a tool for understanding Alevi deyiş/nefes

This workshop will engage with the Alevi deyiş/nefes tradition paying particular attention to its significance for the pir-talip relationship. It seeks to open a productive horizon for a new conceptual engagement with Alevi poetic texts.

The workshop will be bilingual (in English and Turkish) and is organised by the KFG’s associate member Markus Dreßler and Hasret Tıraz.

Time: October 9-10, 2020

Flu vaccination in the KFG

Even though we are sitting here today in shorts and still enjoy 27 degrees, autumn is approaching with big steps and with it the cold and flu season. Due to the Corona pandemic, flu vaccination is even more sensible this year than usual to protect others and ourselves and to relieve our health system.

Leipzig University is therefore again offering to be vaccinated by the in-house physicians. If there are at least 10 people who would like to be vaccinated, the doctors also come to the office.

If you are interested in a flu vaccination, please contact us by 28 September at multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de and we will arrange an appointment.

Event: Film screening “Ji bo Azadiyê // The end will be spectacular” tonight

On very short notice we would like to recommend you the screening of “Ji bo Azadiyê // The end will be spectacular” at Ost-Passage Theater.

The film tells the story of Zilan, a young Kurdish woman who returns to her hometown Ahmed (Diyarbakir) in the footsteps of her killed brother. Suddenly she finds herself in violent skirmishes with the Turkish police and army. The film presents the real story of resistance of a group of young people who in 2015 faced the army to defend their neighbourhood for 100 days against the Turkish military. It is written based on the diaries of those who died and the testimony of the survivors, who also act in the film.

The film will be shown in Kurdish with German subtitles. Ticket reservation is recommended.

23 September, 9 p.m., Ost-Passage Theater
Konradstraße 27 (above „Aldi“)